| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 347 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Argument as reasoned dialogue -- Questions and answers in dialogue -- Criticisms of irrelevance -- Appeals to emotion -- Valid arguments -- Personal attack in argumentation -- Appeals to authority -- Inductive errors, bias, and fallacies -- Natural language argumentation |
| Summary |
"Informal Logic is an introductory guidebook to the basic principles of constructing sound arguments and criticizing bad ones. Non-technical in approach, it is based on 186 examples, which Douglas Walton, a leading authority in the field of informal logic, discusses and evaluates in clear, illustrative detail. Walton explains how errors, fallacies, and other key failures of argument occur. He shows how correct uses of argument are based on sound strategies for reasoned persuasion and critical responses. Among the many subjects covered are: forms of valid argument, defeasible arguments, relevance, appeals to emotion, personal attack, straw man argument, jumping to a conclusion, uses and abuses of expert opinion, problems in drawing conclusions from polls and statistics, loaded terms, equivocation, arguments from analogy, and techniques of posing, replying to, and criticizing questions."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Logic.
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Reasoning.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
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Logic
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Reasoning
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Argumentation
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Logisches Denken
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Logik.
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Argumentationsteknik.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2007042373 |
| ISBN |
0521886171 |
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9780521886178 |
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0521713803 |
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9780521713801 |
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0511409354 |
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9780511808630 |
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0511808631 |
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9786611717063 |
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6611717064 |
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1107086574 |
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9781107086579 |
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1107186692 |
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9781107186699 |
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9781281717061 |
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0511407254 |
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9780511407253 |
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0511408781 |
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9780511408786 |
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